Abstract

CORREA-CABRERA, Guadalupe  and  SANDERS MONTANDON, Arthur. Reforming Mexico's Anti-Trafficking in Persons Legislation. Mex. law rev [online]. 2018, vol.11, n.1, pp.3-30. ISSN 2448-5306.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24485306e.2018.1.12509.

In the past few years, Mexico has taken a number of measures to further prevention, protection, and prosecution of trafficking in persons. The country’s government has signed international anti-trafficking conventions and has taken some aspects of widely accepted international definitions of this crime as a reference when drafting its anti-trafficking legislation. However, Mexican lawmakers have interpreted human trafficking in their own terms. Mexico’s current anti-trafficking legislation is based on a quite broad definition of trafficking in persons and shows serious limitations that have led to the misidentification of victims and traffickers, as well as to re-victimization. This adds to Mexico’s weak rule of law, corruption, and the involvement of interest groups with particular agendas/ideologies that have obstructed reform. The present analysis demonstrates the imperative necessity to modify the current anti-trafficking legislation in Mexico and provides some basic suggestions for this much-needed reform.

Keywords : Mexico; Palermo Protocol; human trafficking; anti-trafficking legislation; reform; Tapachula.

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